This week, we spotlight recent news about SIDS with content spanning the last six months.
- Nationwide reports on local efforts to prevent SIDS
- Tips for safe sleeping for infants
- SIDS research (including melatonin studies, genetics, vaccines, and inner ear problems)
- Swaddling, co-sleeping, and suffocation risks
- Outreach from bereaved parents
- Parents' rights to SIDS education
- SIDS and day care environments
- What exactly is SIDS?
- Products to help prevent SIDS
- SIDS myths and misconceptions
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SOURCE: CDC/NCHS
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), also referred to in some cases as Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID or SUDI), cot death, or crib death, takes the lives of 3,500 infants under age 1 years in the United States.
This is an absolutely heartbreaking essay written by a mother who lost her baby to SIDS: please steel yourself and go read it to be reminded of the blessings that we all have when our children sleep through the night safely and wake up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
The mysterious nature of SIDS makes these deaths exponentially tragic because there's still so much we don't know about this disorder, which can still occur even in babies who are not co-sleeping or asleep on their tummies.
To read this week's curation: